Throwback Thursday
While we didn’t get out to the woods this weekend, grocery shopping proved to be a nice spot for some flower shots.
🌻 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD🌻
“Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?”
– Simone Elkeles
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How can I spread sunshine today?
First published on the 28th day of September, 2020.
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Growth
🦋 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD 🦋
Growth is a forward momentum. Like a caterpillar, we morph into new stages and spaces and spreading our wings, we learn to fly for the first time. Then we learn to fly farther and higher. Growth takes risk. Yet, the caterpillar does not worry about the next phase. Perhaps ignorance is its bliss. For us however, sometimes it is in facing challenges and moving away from our comfort zone that we learn that one of the strengths of growth, is courage.
Can “knowing too much” hinder our growth? Can blind faith be more beneficial?
I accept risk, even when I am afraid.
I am proud of myself when I dare to risk.
Accepting risk as a part of life, empowers me.
First published on the 13 day of July, 2020
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Reflections
Quiet pool, resting
Mirrored manifestations
Silent reflections
First published on the 11th day of May, 2020
What might come to mind first is clay pottery, weapons, grinding stones, or fishhooks. Yet when the anthropologist, Margaret Mead, was asked by a student, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” her answer was, “A healed femur.”
The longest bone in the body is the femur. It connects the hip to the knee, and takes many weeks to heal. In the animal world, if you break your leg, you die. You aren’t able to hunt, go to your water source, or protect yourself from danger. It is difficult so survive long enough for the injury to heal. In their world, where the code is: “survival of the fittest”, there aren’t healed femurs found.
A healed femur is a sign of care. Someone has set and bound the broken limb and stayed to tend, feed and nurture the wounded. They have been taken to a safe place to rest where they are protected.
We are our highest selves when we are serving others.
“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts,” Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can’t change the world; For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
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First published on the 6th day of April, 2020.
Cover Photo by Wikimedia.org
Source: Forbes
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Zen moment
I am always amazed at how the world can be in such a state of unrest… and yet I step outside, and the birds are blissfully unaware, continuing the full chorus line, not worried and unhurried.
They understand the deepest thing of all: the joy of simply being.
First published on the 30th day of March, 2020.
First published on the 23rd day of March, 2020
Moments fixed in time
Forever branded COVID
We’re wearing them still
First published on the 16th day of March, 2020
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
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Fallen Growth
First published on the 9th day of February, 2020
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Echoes of times past
Reserves of the old farmer
Grain for cattle, cash
First published on the 19th day of January, 2020
Be well and safe my friends!
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